I'm just leaving myself to head out to Titusville for the launch. Looking forward to capturing as many pics and videos as I can of the events. Got my handy talky all charged to listen to the rebroadcast on 2 meter.

Pretty sure Steve Wozniak has a pretty good claim on the title of Inventor of the Personal Computer though. He does hold the patent for "Microcomputer for use with video display" US Patent No. 4,136,359
Just spreading the love of Woz.

He even has the patent to prove it. Go Woz!
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4,136,359.PN.&OS=PN/4,136,359&RS=PN/4,136,359

I have both a Nook and Nook Color The Nook is best e-reader I've used so far, love it for reading. Nook Color is a really nice little tablet. Works well for reading indoors, but I use it mostly as media player and for surfing internet. Also have a Honeycomb image on micro-sd card for when I want full Android system. Oh yeah, Nook Color can boot an alternate OS off the micro-sd slot without rooting, and while leaving the original Nook OS intact. Highly recommend both devices.

"Cell combines a general-purpose Power Architecture core of modest performance with streamlined coprocessing elements[2] which greatly accelerate multimedia and vector processing applications, as well as many other forms of dedicated computation." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)

I would expect they might continue with their work on the design they started with Gecko. The Wii's Broadway chip is supposedly built on the Gamecube's Gecko chip.

And how do we know someone pirates movies on the internet? That's right, they believe there is a movie called Hackers 2. There isn't, it is the name given to bootleg copies of the movie Takedown. Which has nothing to do with the movie Hackers. It is based off what is seen by some as a inaccurate telling of the events surrounding the capture of Kevin Mitnick. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/releaseinfo#akas Even IMDB says that title is used for bootleg versions of the movie.

What's cheesy about using digital steganography to encrypt messages within an image? It's something that is actually possible to do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography#Digital_steganography

"Microsoft's next-generation operating system has abandoned Intel exclusively for the first time." I had to go and read the article, which seemed like normal "tech news" crap. Then I read this line and it rubbed me the wrong way so badly. While technically it might be true, about Windows 8, it sounds like it's implying the NT OS has only ever been on Intel chips. That would be so very wrong, Comptia A+ learning guide's version of Windows history style of wrong.

I thought of Windows as snappy once, but that was after I got Windows Server 2003 up and running on my fibre channel harddrives with fiber optic cabling.

I put that phrase on a motivational poster in my cubicle when I worked in AT&T's Laptop Connect group.